twiggy
Example Sentences
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As plants grow, they hide the twiggy underpinnings.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023
They shed their limbs, become a drifting blob and morph into polyps, twiggy growths that attach to rocks or plants.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2022
Instead, the facility’s various chemicals and experiments transform Alec Holland into the green, leafy, twiggy Swamp Thing.
From The Verge • May 31, 2019
After spending the winter huddled in sage brush, a twiggy shrub that carpets the plains and is the backdrop to a thousand Westerns, male grouse gather on patches of open ground known as leks.
From Economist • May 3, 2018
Gurgi looked only half as twiggy and leafy as usual.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
